Trump (Or any Subject) Derangement Syndrome

[Carborendum]

3 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

Another issue is that there's considerable overlap in the behaviors demonstrated by both "kid with ADD/ADHD" and "kid who is legitimately bored because they either already know the material or the teaching style is not one they respond best to". 

This is particularly problematic when you're talking about teachers who have to be corrected by their students.  Those are the people who are put in charge of reporting students that may be "too active."

[Ironhold]

2 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

This is particularly problematic when you're talking about teachers who have to be corrected by their students.  Those are the people who are put in charge of reporting students that may be "too active."

I only needed three math classes in high school: Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. 

I did well enough in Geometry, but struggled in Algebra. Because of this, I had no desire to take any more math courses. 

One of my brothers insisted that I take Pre-Calculus, this in spite of how I struggled in Algebra. I tried to explain that Pre-Calculus would likely be well beyond what I could do, and that if he was afraid of me getting out of practice I could take a math & money course that was being offered since I was already looking into possibly being a business major.

He talked mom into putting in the paperwork for me to take that Pre-Calculus class, as it was what the parents put in for that counted rather than what the students themselves asked for. 

Each class was 90 minutes. Starting with the second class, the teacher would spend the first 30 going from desk to desk and grading our homework on the spot so that she didn't have to do it on her own time. She then utterly failed to understand why we never finished the day's lesson before class ended, but nevertheless we had to finish our homework assignments as listed on the board and have them ready by next class. Anyone who had questions could just, as far as she was concerned, go to the before-school or after-school tutoring periods, which were always so packed that it was difficult to even get in the room. 

She had zero sympathy for anyone who fell behind, and even put a note on one of my tests that basically invited me to leave the class. 

Cue my parents blaming *me* for having a poor grade in that class despite my efforts, leading to autistic burnout that negatively affected my performance in my other classes. 

Finally, at the end of the semester, there was a four-way conference involving myself, my dad, the teacher, and the vice principal. It was only during this conference that anyone believed me when I talked about how we never finished the day's lessons because she insisted on grading papers desk by desk, how my somehow not answering a question to her satisfaction got me an 80% on a homework assignment (showing how arbitrary her grading could be), and how I was basically invited to leave the class. I was transferred out of that class immediately, placed into an intro to psychology elective that was far more towards my skill set, but the damage had been done.

I missed graduating in the top 10% of my class by 4 slots, a measly fraction of a fraction of a grade point. 

Here in Texas if you graduate in the top 10% of your class and you go to a public in-state college you can petition to have the state cover most or even all of your tuition costs. 

Yeah...

I understand that most teachers are legitimately trying to teach and want to see kids succeed, but hard experience tells me that there are also people who have no business teaching and that these teachers can do hideous amounts of damage before anyone catches onto what they're doing.

[NeuroTypical]

On 4/24/2025 at 12:41 PM, Carborendum said:

The police arrested him.  Then the Biden administration ordered him to be released without even giving him a ticket for the traffic violation.